Tag: Civil War Photography

• It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. ~Dylan Thomas

  Adrienne Morris

  January 27, 2016

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, Uncategorized

  blog, brothers, Civil War Photography, dylan thomas, picture frames, Quotes, siblings, Sisters, snow man, Writers

• Books I’ve Known And Loved

  “One surviving letter suggests that the men engaged in seizing black civilians may have had no uniform attitude toward the kidnapping.” And here lies a great truth: people are complex. As much as we would like to think otherwise there are no super heroes–and villains while evil may only be slightly more blind to their…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 17, 2015

  books, Books I’ve Known and Loved

  19th century, 19th century America, book review, Books, Civil War Photography, civil wars, evil, Life, superheroes, United States History

• The Photographer Who Convinced Everyone To Sit For Him But The Dead

  “My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.”  Matthew Brady Matthew Brady: the man behind all of those Civil War photos; the man who convinced everyone to sit for him but the dead. Almost no one…

  Adrienne Morris

  April 30, 2015

  19th Century Art, inspirational, Men

  19th century, Civil War Photography, Matthew Brady, National Portrait Gallery, Photography

• Amazing Artist’s Studio–Rent Free!

  Artist capturing war being documented. The Civil War’s being fought stage right, but the lens is on the artist and how perfectly the life of an artist is captured here. Note the look of intense sympathy, horrified interest and serious intent. Maybe he posed for the camera and sketching battles was just this man’s boring…

  Adrienne Morris

  August 19, 2013

  Beautiful Images, Uncategorized

  artists, Civil War Photography, Death, Matthew Brady, Writers